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The live launch can be viewed Tuesday morning on NASA Television's YouTube channel. For the first time, NASA will livestream a rocket launch in 360 degrees, giving you a view as if you were standing on the pad.
The launch, which is happening in coordination with United Launch Alliance and Orbital ATK, is targeted for Tuesday during a 30-minute window

NASA wants to put viewers in the middle of the action for its rocket launch Tuesday in a way that's never been done before: by live-streaming a 360-degree video. Viewers can watch an Atlas V rocket lift off on a supply mission to the International Space Station from the vantage point of the launch pad. If you have a virtual reality device, you can use it to feel as if you're

This week (April 12, 2017), NASA scientists released the first new global map of Earth at night since 2012. The composite map – dubbed the Black Marble – depicts earthly lights at night as observed in 2016. This nighttime look at our home planet, created using satellite data, provides a unique perspective of human activities around the globe. The principal

The geysers of Saturn’s moon Enceladus are gushing up food for life, scientists say. Researchers report Thursday in the journal Science that the jets of ice and gas gushing from the moon’s south pole contain molecular hydrogen, a chemical characteristic of hydrothermal activity. On Earth, hydrogen provides fuel for communities of organisms that live around

Just for a moment, imagine how much havoc would be caused by a a 650-metre space rock smashing into the Earth. It would make the horrific Boxing Day 2004 tsunami look like a mild disaster by comparison.
Fortunately, that won't be on the agenda on April 19 when a large asteroid, 2014 JO25, passes by our planet.
According to NASA, it's going to miss Earth

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.: A U.S. astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts made a parachute landing in Kazakhstan on Monday, wrapping up a nearly six-month mission aboard the International Space Station, a NASA TV broadcast showed. The Russian Soyuz capsule, which left the station shortly before 4 a.m. EDT (0800 GMT), touched down southeast of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan

JUPITER will reach opposition tonight and shine brighter than ever before in the night. Here is a live stream of the planet in the sky. Jupiter will position itself in the Virgo constellation almost directly across from the Sun, lighting it up in the night sky.
The gaseous giant will also be its closest point to Earth and will be clearly visible in the UK between

Later this month, she will have spent more time in space than any previous US astronaut. Whitson was scheduled to return to Earth when Expedition 51 ends in June, but Roscosmos is reducing their crew to only two cosmonauts for Expedition 52 so Whitson will stay on board to ensure the space station has a full crew of six through the September.
"This is great

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX successfully launched and then retrieved its first recycled rocket Thursday, a historic feat and the biggest leap yet in its bid to drive down costs and speed up flights. It was the first time SpaceX founder Elon Musk had tried to fly a booster that had soared before on an orbital mission. He was at a loss for words after

NASA has partnered with real-time visualisation platform Epic Games' Unreal Engine to create a mixed reality International Space Station (ISS) that can provide an 'out of this world' environment for its astronauts and engineers, a media report said on Monday. Unreal Engine's applications are designed to allow people to work in environments that are practically